"Nobody is talking about printing money."
- Alistair Darling, Chancellor of the Exchequer.
"The Monetary Policy Committee will need to go the whole hog and cut rates to zero. And once it has done that, it will have to resort to other measures designed to boost the quantity of money in the economy"
- Roger Bootle, Deloitte.
"The only path left is for quantitative easing, where the Bank effectively prints money."
- Stephen Gifford, Grant Thornton.
"It seems ever more likely that the Bank of England will engage in some form of quantitative easing over the coming months."
- Howard Archer, IHS Global Insight.
"Listen carefully and you can almost hear the printing presses being cranked up."
- Stuart Porteous, RBS.
"The MPC will be tempted to follow the US Federal Reserve’s example and pursue quantitative easing.”
- Edward Menashy, Charles Stanley.
You couldn't make it up.